Sunday 11 May 2008
By dgirard on Sunday 11 May 2008, 23:21
Jason and Kortina built tinydb at appengine hackathon nyc
after CC wanted to send structured data along with a tinyurl.
tinydb.org's goals are:
- Provide a simple API for writing and reading small chunks of data from
anywhere.
- Serve as a platform upon which twitter applications and javascript widgets
can be written.
- Circumvent crossdomain.xml in interesting and creative ways.
http://tinydb.org
My blogs : http://tinydb.org/sg?_f=json
The idea is very nice, but be carful : Javascript injection ;-) http://tinydb.org/sk
Thursday 8 May 2008
By dgirard on Thursday 8 May 2008, 09:41
python-gwt-rpc
This is simple small library, for use both GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and GAE
(Google App Engine) technologies together. This is a tool for simple and quick
integration between google-app-engine and google web toolkit, without using
json as communication protocoled. Unfortunately I have not GAE account, so I
can't present a example, but you can download it from download section. By use
this library you can write GWT services implementation in Python, with full
support of transfer primitive types, custom object types and exceptions
objects, with full type translation. This is first code written by me in python
:), I'm java developer so maybe I do some wrong.
I'm just running a Google App Engine
Codathlon (English)
in Paris.
If you want a java version for GAppE, just star
here.
http://code.google.com/p/python-gwt-rpc/
Update : A demo is available here.
Wednesday 7 May 2008
By dgirard on Wednesday 7 May 2008, 07:42
Andrew Bowers
With Google I/O just a few weeks away (May 28 - 29), if you haven't already
registered, now's a good time to do so. There are now over 80 sessions posted,
including a lot on Google Web Toolkit. In fact, there's a GWT session during
just about every time slot over the two days :
- "GWT Extreme!" by Ray Cromwell
- "Using GWT to build a high performance collaborative diagramming tool"
If you blog about this event, just send me an email, I will publish your
post.
New GWT sessions posted for the Google I/O conference
By dgirard on Wednesday 7 May 2008, 07:36
Dion Almaer :
Today we have Bruce Johnson of the GWT team talking to us about GWT 1.5. He
discusses the new features, such as the long awaited Java 5 language support,
performance improvements, and much more.
It is very nice to take an application, run it through the new GWT 1.5
compiler, and get an instantly faster running application “for free”.
Ajax
Pioneer Week: Bruce Johnson of GWT
Tuesday 6 May 2008
By dgirard on Tuesday 6 May 2008, 01:30
Cedric Beust :
I recently spent some time porting a SWT application to GWT, and it's been a
real pleasure. Ever since I heard about GWT, I have been very eager to put my
hands on it and try it for real. Pity it took so long.
I'm reading Cedric blog for 5 years now. It was nice to see GWT has an
headline on it.
First Steps with
GWT
Saturday 3 May 2008
By dgirard on Saturday 3 May 2008, 18:59 - GWT tips and tricks
Julien Viet
The in place editor is one of the simplest yet powerful feature brought by
Ajax. I wrote two such editors last year, using javascript and Prototype as an
exercise. Recently I started to study GWT more in depth and I found fun to
write a GWT version of the in place editor.
GWT
in-place-editor
By dgirard on Saturday 3 May 2008, 09:42 - GWT Application
Dion Almaer
XSketch is “a multiplayer word sketch game. It is programmed in Adobe Flash,
Java, Ajax, and GWT. Gameplay is similar to Pictionary where you sketch a
picture with the goal of having other players guess your word and vice
versa.”
XSketch: Pictionary
with GWT
By dgirard on Saturday 3 May 2008, 09:38 - GWT Library
Sanjiv
In light of ExtJS going GPL, I'd like to provide an update to GWT-Ext users
on the future direction of the project. While many users would like to see
GWT-Ext continue to provide an LGPL stack with Ext 2.0.2, a few others felt
that GWT-Ext should just go ahead and support the GPL versions of ExtJS.
Update on
future direction of GWT-Ext
Thursday 1 May 2008
By dgirard on Thursday 1 May 2008, 09:36 - GWT Library
dani
The goal of this project is to develop an extensible platform to enable xmpp
communications in gwt applications. We're happy to announce the first public
release that includes the emite XMPP library, a complete instant messaging,
presence and multi-user chat implementation, and a ready to use, full featured
chat and rooms user interface built using extjs and gwt-ext. This is a pure-gwt
(no server side code) xmmp library, so it can scale as much as your
infrastructure can do. We hope gwt community finds this library useful to build
other xmpp based services.
Emite: XMPP for
GWT
Wednesday 30 April 2008
By dgirard on Wednesday 30 April 2008, 21:14 - GWT Library
Darrell
Ext JS is pleased to announce the Ext GWT 1.0 beta2 release. This release
includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes since the beta1 release and is a
recommended upgrade for those using beta 1.
Ext GWT v1.0
Beta 2 Released
By dgirard on Wednesday 30 April 2008, 21:13
Chris Fong
Unless you were stuck in a cave this past week, you know about the emergence
of Ext GWT and the entire Ext JS GPL licensing debate. We had GWT-Ext’s Sanjiv
Jivan weigh in, followed by Ext JS creator Jack Slocum’s heated response. While
the whole soap opera is somewhat fascinating, I’m more interested in how these
new developments will affect the GWT community’s two most popular widget
libraries.
Jack is very verbose, but what about Darrell ? Can he explain us why he
kills the MyGWT web site. I think that it will not help us to trust the future
of EXT GWT. It will be wise to restore it.
Ext GWT, GWT-Ext. What
now?
Tuesday 29 April 2008
By dgirard on Tuesday 29 April 2008, 10:48 - GWT tips and tricks
benjo:
I have been struggling with getting recaptcha to work with GWT, and
finally succeeded. I thought I would share how I did this. The method I solved
this problem involves some JNSI, but also modifying some of that static content
in your .html file. It is inelegant, but I could not get a pure JNSI
implementation to work.
Recaptcha
on GWT
By dgirard on Tuesday 29 April 2008, 10:35 - GWT Article
David Geary and Rob Gordon
Until now, drag and drop for web applications has, for the most part, been
limited to specialized JavaScript frameworks such as Script.aculo.us and Rico.
No more. With the advent of GWT, we have drag-and-drop capabilities in a
Java-based web application framework. Although Google Web Toolkit (GWT) does
not explicitly support drag and drop (drag and drop is an anticipated feature
in the future), it provides us with all the necessary ingredients to make our
own drag-and-drop module. In this solution, we explore drag-and-drop
implementation with GWT. We implement drag and drop in a module of its own so
that you can easily incorporate drag and drop into your applications.
Implement
Drag and Drop in Your Web Apps
Monday 28 April 2008
By dgirard on Monday 28 April 2008, 17:41
I have added AdSense. I'm not sure I will let it. I just want to rate this
blog.
Sunday 27 April 2008
By dgirard on Sunday 27 April 2008, 22:28
Here is the result of the poll :
Complete
results
By dgirard on Sunday 27 April 2008, 11:01
Dion Almaer :
There has been a lot of noise revolving around Ext JS and the open source
license decisions. Under the original license (LGPL-ish) many thought that it
wasn’t actually an open source license at all. Jack changed to GPL last week
when he announced version 2.1, but others have been upset with views on forking
the old code-base.
Ext
JS and the fun with Open Source licenses
Jack Slocum
It’s not right the amount of personal attacks I have been receiving lately.
I have people questioning my ethics, business practices and saying we changed
Ext JS to GPL v3 because my (and I quote) “greed for money came before your
moral ethics”.
Ext JS License change and personal attacks
Dion Almaer :
OpenEXT is here. It is a fork of Ext JS 2.0.2, which was under an LGPL
license (kinda…. with some invalid, non-open source licensing).
The crux of the fork is: "Ext are claiming that a fork of the existing 2.0
version is not legal, due to the way they applied the LGPL. This is likely to
be incorrect, and if correct then their use of the name LGPL was grossly
misleading. "
At this point, the walls are crumbling, and Jack needs to make a big effort
and come clean to his community to save the reputation of the project. If not,
it will probably always be in a cloud of darkness as people are both confused
and wonder about motives. This is not about personal attacks, but due to not
having clarity on the core issues.
OpenEXT: The
fork
Everything has been said, it will be my last post on the subject.
Saturday 26 April 2008
By dgirard on Saturday 26 April 2008, 07:55
Sanjiv Jivan
Most of you probably know that ExtJS has suddenly been changed to GPL and
now Jack Slocum, Ext author, has decided to start spreading FUD and
misinformation on my forum. Here's my response to his post. I have decided to
respond in my blog as I feel the community deserves to know the unethical path
that Ext has chosen to take.
My
response to Jack Slocum's post on the GWT-Ext forum
By dgirard on Saturday 26 April 2008, 07:42
Ben Martin :
The Apache-licensed GChart utility lets you quickly generate nice-looking
charts on your Web site.
GChart is implemented with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), which we introduced
recently. To install GChart, just extract the distribution zip file. You can
work with GChart in your own GWT applications by using it in Eclipse.
Friday 25 April 2008
By dgirard on Friday 25 April 2008, 19:34
Graeme Rocher :
The news that Ext-JS has, from one release to the next, changed from a
modified LGPL to a GPL based license nearly made me fall off my chair. There
have been many poor judged, and ill advised decisions made by software
companies over the last few years, but this has got to be up there with the
stupidist I've seen and I'm not even personally an Ext-JS user.
Graeme Rocher is an experienced software engineer, consultant and dynamic
language expert who serves as Chief Technology Officer at G2One Inc - The
Groovy/Grails company. Graeme is project lead of the open source Grails web
application framework (http://grails.org).
Choosing and OSS License; and the Ext-JS saga
Ludovic Dubost
I'm Ludovic Dubost, the CEO of XWiki, an open source non dual-licenced LGPL
software. I've just found on the Internet that you have decided to move extjs
from an LGPL to a dual licenced GPL.
I wanted to let you know my personal opinion both as a potential user (we
where going to work with extjs in XWiki) and as the head of an Open-Source
company,
More Open Source Commitment: extjs changing their licence
By dgirard on Friday 25 April 2008, 09:57
Dion Almaer
The Google Ajax API team has been offering great services that you can use
from JavaScript in the browser. I have talked about some of them on Ajaxian
before (Feed API, Feed Discovery API, and the recent Language API) but now we
have a great new release that enables you to access these APIs from Flash or
the server side.
In fact, as long as your program can speak HTTP, you can have access to the
services.
Hello World
Google offers Search, Feed, and Translation APIs to Non Ajax Usage
